The map below shows the distance from Pittsburgh to all the cities with Major League Baseball teams in the National League Central and National League East divisions. Mileage was calculated using city-to-city driving directions with Google Maps. The Pirates are in the Central division, but they quite clearly shouldn’t be. To start, Pittsburgh is farther [...]
Good news, Pirates fans! A $10 bet with Bodog today on the Buccos to win the World Series will be good for $30,000 in November. I imagine that it will feel pretty good to cash in that ticket, especially after watching a .359 team make up a 22-game deficit to win it all. (Same goes [...]
It’s possible that, in the future, this website will house a brilliant daily webcomic. Until then, make sure you read these every day: Dinosaur Comics Toothpaste for Dinner Married to the Sea Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Spamusement (not daily, but the archive is large enough that you can pretend it is) Go, enjoy.
Oh boy. House Republicans yesterday failed to gather enough votes to pass a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, despite its heretofore-unobvious potential for resolving the conflict in the Middle East: Another Georgia Republican, Representative Phil Gingrey, said support for traditional marriage “is perhaps the best message we can give to the Middle East and [...]
Why is it standard never to display a price in advertisements for big-time live music? I just got an email from the 930 Club promoting the Virgin Festival (with Gnarls Barkley, The Flaming Lips, Wolfmother, Kasabian and others), and I had to hunt around a little to find out how much it would cost. Local bands always [...]